FATAL RENDEZVOUS
BETWEEN AMERICAN BOMBER & AIR LINER TWELVE PERSONS KILLED. ARMY PILOT TO BE TRIED FOR MANSLAUGHTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, October 28. A Congressional Committee attributed a collision between an Army bomber and an air liner, in which twelve persons were killed, to an air rendezvous previously arranged between the bomber pilot and the co-pilot of the air liner. The committee said the pilots met at a party on the preceding night and arranged that the bomber pilot should time his take-off to coincide with that of the air liner, so that the planes meet in the San Gregorio Pass. When the meeting occurred, the bomber pilot wig-wagged his wings, went ahead, and crossed too close to the air liner. The bomber pilot will be court-martialled on a charge of manslaughter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1942, Page 4
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